All posts tagged Benedict Cumberbatch

“The Colbert Report” announced the guest roster for next week’s final four episodes yesterday, but Stephen Colbert better bring his A-game if he thinks he can top last night’s spectacular guest interview segment.

The “Lord of the Rings” fanatic, who has all but taken over this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly celebrating all things J.R.R. Tolkien, also brought his obsession to Thursday’s “The Colbert Report” – where he conducted an epic one-on-one with Middle-Earth villain and star of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” Smaug the Dragon. Read More »

The nominations for the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced in Los Angeles this morning, with Eva Longoria and “The Fault in Our Stars” actor Ansel Elgort reading off the nominees for 13 acting-based categories in movies and television.

While there were few shockers in this batch of nominations from a movie standpoint – awards-season buzz-worthy films like “Birdman,” “Boyhood” and “The Imitation Game” are well-represented – the TV nominees featured a couple of pleasant surprises. Uzo Aduba, who took home a Creative Arts Emmy back in August for her “Guest” role of Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on the Netflix series “Orange Is the New Black,” has now been nominated for the same role in the Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series category. Read More »

The British actor, currently generating serious Oscar buzz as Alan Turing in“The Imitation Game,” had long been considered a top choice for the role. Others who had reportedly been considered to play the psychedelic superhero included Joaquin Phoenix and Jared Leto, who was recently cast as the Joker in rival Warner Bros.-DC Comics’ “Suicide Squad.” Read More »

There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Alan Turing. With the release of “The Imitation Game” last Friday in select theaters, though, that may be about to change.

The Weinstein Company film, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is sure to bring a lot more attention to the man who cracked the Nazi “Enigma” code in World War II, a feat which likely shortened the war by almost two years, saving millions of lives.

And yet Turing’s accomplishments go well beyond that—a brilliant mathematician and scientist, Turing is considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. The machine he invented to crack the code is now considered one of the earliest precursors to modern-day computers. Read More »

Benedict Cumberbatch cannot walk through a lobby without spotting himself on a magazine cover. He says so himself. “It’s absurd and it’s so surreal. I just passed a newsstand and went ‘That’s me on the cover of ‘Out’ magazine,” he said as he arrived at the Wall Street Journal offices to talk about “The Imitation Game.” He stars in the awards-ready role of Alan Turing, the real-life math genius who broke the German Enigma code during World War II and who, in the 1950’s, was prosecuted for being gay. Cumberbatch had forgotten he’d even done the “Out” interview.

“You just do these things, you leave a trail behind, and then I go back to work, and my life and I don’t look at them,” he said. “But then when you’re out and about again moving through terminuses and doing the kind of crazy amount of flying that we’ve been doing,” it all comes back. Read More »

Happy Thanksgiving! This week at the multiplex, we’ve got funny flightless birds (“The Penguins Of Madagascar,” with voice performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and John Malkovich) and desperate businessmen (“Horrible Bosses 2,” starring Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis). Find out what the critics have to say on Rotten Tomatoes. Read More »

After a grueling six-month wait, the folks at “Jimmy Kimmel Live” bestowed the eighth installment of their viral sensation “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” upon the world last night. Ever since starting the series in 2012, Jimmy Kimmel has showcased his strong commitment to the public service of spotlighting some of Twitter‘s cruelest inhabitants: the celebrity trolls.

Soundtracked by R.E.M‘s “Everybody Hurts,” A-listers from Julia Roberts to Benedict Cumberbatch sit down in front of the “Kimmel” cameras to read some of the scathing opinions written by people who have most likely never met them in their lives. Read More »

Bono‘s Central Park biking accident on Sunday threw a huge wrench into this week’s “Tonight Show” schedule (U2‘s planned five-day residency on the late-night talk show was subsequently canceled), but luckily Jimmy Fallon had some heavy-hitters in his corner to salvage Monday’s episode.

First off, he got the star of the number-one movie in the country – and current king of the late-night circuit – Jim Carrey, to stop by with his newly constructed Jeff Daniels puppet (just go with it). Props must go, however, to Fallon’s talent booker, who had the foresight to book Hollywood/Internet/social-media sweetheart Benedict Cumberbatch on the night where U2′s absence would most acutely be felt by the audience. Read More »

This story and video contain major spoilers from season four of “Game of Thrones.“

Actor Charles Dance is known to fans of the HBO series “Game of Thrones” as the unbending patriarch of House Lannister, Tywin. But he has taken on a conservative, authoritative figure of a different stripe in the new film “The Imitation Game“: Commander Denniston.

The character is based on the real-life commander who oversaw Bletchley Park, a government site for code and cyphers during World War II, which employed brilliant mathematicians to help the war effort. One mathematician, “the brightest of the bright,” as Dance says, was Alan Turing (played by Benedict Cumberbatch), who helped crack the German Enigma Code. Read More »

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